The Best Low Sodium Ketchup Recipe When you embark on a low sodium diet, you start to realize that salt is hidden in almost everything. Condiments are often a an easy pitfall for anyone starting out on a low sodium diet. They succeed in pulling the salt shaker off of the table and think that […]
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I am an avid student of Food Science, especially the chemistry involved in the manufacturing and cooking of food. For one simple reason really, because food science matters for low sodium. Especially for a Heart Transplant recipient like myself. It’s funny really, I was not the best and brightest of students when it came
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Celebrate a Heart Healthy Cinco de Mayo Everyone loves a Fiesta! Cinco de Mayo is a great holiday that is celebrated with food. Sadly, many of the traditional Mexican, Spanish, Latin, and Caribbean dishes are often high in salt. No to mention the salt on the rims of the Margarita glasses. Buzzfeed.com picked up a
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Low Sodium Blackened Fish Tacos Tacos. Perfect in their own simplicity. It’s fillings in various forms and incarnations easily delivered to your mouth via a hand held conveniently edible tortilla delivery system. Rivaled only perhaps by the sandwich. So popular a fast food chain, Taco John’s trademarked having Taco Tuesdays. So what better way to
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I love Mexican and Latin flavors! As I have related before, most of my formative cooking as a bachelor was when I lived in Florida. The major cultural impact on cuisine was Latin, Mexican, Spanish, and Caribbean flavors. Rice is a staple in many of those cuisines, especially Mexican or Spanish Rice, typically served with
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I’ve never been a fan of overly sweet drinks. Whether they have alcohol or not. I tend to like savory and sour flavors, as well as some heat. So I think I have hit it out of the park with this cilantro jalapeno margarita! The cilantro for the savory, lime for the sour, and jalapeno
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Low Sodium Hummus My wife introduced me to hummus. Up until that point, my Midwestern sensibilities thought it was thoroughly appropriate to just have some “dip” for your veggies. “Dip” usually translated into a cream heavy, thick dressing of some kind that had an overwhelming dill flavoring to it. Store bought hummus can be high
I’m diligently pursuing a goal of being able to reclaim Asian dishes and cooking from the realm of “too much sodium” so we can regain those flavors and options in our low sodium lives. The culprit with Asian dishes is the sauces. The salt is off the charts. After mastering a low sodium soy sauce,
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Low Sodium Guinness Beef Stew On my Dad’s side of the family, we’re Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and German. All heritages that enjoy a good and hearty stew! So whether it is for St. Patrick’s Day, or just something hot and hearty to warm you to the core on a chilly night, you will love this
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In college, when my friends and I were snarfing down Ramen Noodles cooked up in our dorm room hot pots, we began to question whether this was really the “bomb” (yeah we called things the “bomb” back then) of noodle experience. Having grown up exposed to Korean, Chinese, and Filipino cuisine, I knew we could
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